In a new cloud computing survey from 451 Research, 57 percent of enterprises said that they use Amazon Web Services for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Microsoft Azure came in second with 42 percent of enterprises, and it was selected most often as the IaaS vendor that enterprises plan to evaluate the next time they select a supplier.
“For IaaS, AWS is the clear market leader in terms of adoption by enterprises as an IaaS provider,” said Scott Ottoway, a vice president at 451 Research. “However, it is a very large market in terms of total revenue, and there are other hyperscale providers, such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Rackspace, that provide highly competitive offers based on initial cost, total cost and breadth of platform/technologies offered.”
